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Delmas, Marianne. "Aux frontières de la "couleur locale" : étude des figures et des espaces sudistes dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Grace E. King." Toulouse 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU20089.
Full textGrace king (1852-1932) is a louisianian author who achieved great success in her day as a biographer, historian and novelist of her region. This study of her fiction illustrates the characteristics of the local color movement to which it belongs, and their transgression for apologetic, realistic or feminist purposes. The chronological analysis puts into relief the writer's evolution throughout her career, on an ideological and literary level. Part i tackles the historical, cultural and biographical circumstances surrounding grace king's literary output, enhancing the paradoxical status of the writer as a southerner and as a woman. Part ii, examining the first works, discloses, behind the regional romance, some of grace king's favorite motifs: space symbolism, race and gender barriers in the south. The analysis of tales of a time and place is the topic of part iii. The short stories infringe the conventions of the genre (stereotypes, irony, picturesqueness), use naturalistic themes to depict the south from a social standpoint. The stories considered in part iv mark a turning point in king's writing, introducing a more intimate style in which local color vanishes behind the main character : the new southern woman. Part v is a structural analysis of the pleasant ways of st. Medard, a autobiographical novel which reveals the author's inventiveness. The last part focuses on la dame de ste hermine, a romance confirming king's competence as an historian while suggesting her abdication as a modern author. Examining the narrative devices of structure, characterization, space and time representation, this study sets out to explain the complexity of the author's motives, and investigates the subversive perspective of her writings, which turns her lucid description of the south into a praise of the southern woman and a condemnation of southern masculine hegemony
Camoin, Cécilia. "Francophonie et héritage dans les littératures orale et écrite, et la musique, en Louisiane aux XIXème et XXème siècles : entre survivance et revendication, la théâtralité comme force de vie." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040069.
Full textOur study aims at demonstrating how theatricality made French-speaking communities' survival and claiming possible in Louisiana. In our first part, we study romantic literature of the XIXth century and show that these erudite creations established Louisiana as a theatrical character. The 1921's Convention banished French language in the State, starting an English-Language's assimilation policy. In the second part, we see that oral literature and lyrics stressed linguistics' monstrosity in carnivalesque. This struggle continued in written literature after 1968's proclamation of Louisiana as a bilingual state. In the third part, we explain how this written literature helped self-analysis of linguistics' vertigo. We prove then how the authors composed, with theatrical process inherited from oral character, the new poetical and social body of a reassembled identity
Commault, Gilles. "Les personnages secondaires cadjins dans la littérature anglophone du vingtième siècle." Rennes 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006REN20007.
Full textThis thesis is about the background and minor Cajun characters that are to be found in the anglophone Twentieth-Century American novels. Are they mere words without any connection to the real Louisiana ? Or do they represent, through the prism of their fictionnal Louisiana where they act, something about the real Cajuns (as a community), or, at least, about the way these people are considered by the following writers : William Faulkner, Ernest John Gaines, James Lee Burke, Tim Gautreaux and Walker Percy ? We devote the first part of the thesis to the theory of character and consider that the second option is the more convenient. In the second part, we analyse the manifestation of characters as agents, " actants ", performers, and to what extent they are part of the narration. The third part leads us to consider how they contribute to the reader's perception of the frontiers, distance, expanse and referential density of the fictive Louisianas they inhabit, according the Vincent Jouve's theory. In the end, we analyse the values they carry, either in the texts' intructions or through the characters' talking
Caparroy, Jean-François. "Soi-même comme un monstre pour demeurer un territoire inconnu. Complexité linguistique et clandestinité dans la poésie francophone de Louisiane à la fin du XXème siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040023.
Full textWhy do Jean Arceneaux, Deborah Clifton and David Cheramie – three francophone poets from Louisiana – choose to represent themselves as the monster in their poetry? The comparative study of their works Cris sur le bayou, Suite du loup, A cette heure, la louve and Lait à mère reveals the existence of a special location in between their different texts the poets themselves imagine as " the wolves' country ", where the wanderings of their poetical doubles draw the bases of a new American myth.The splitting and setting of the different alter ego of the writer in a poetical process of " linguistic schizophrenia ", the throwing of one’s own picture as a monstrous figure in order to recolonize a textual space turned into a poetical non-place before becoming a substitute body for the poet, the carnivalesque game in which the text now a palimpsest represents a superposition of masks that betrays the existence of a hidden literary world, the aesthetic of the wolf-like gait and the proliferation of a formal monstrosity, these are the poetical artifacts used by our writers in a strategy game to express themselves. Thus, keeping to a form of secret thought, their works present inverted social, aesthetic and linguistic values, allowing the emptiness and silent specific to alienation to become the materials to set out for an amnesic exploration in order to rehabilitate one’s own self.As they define themselves by this deformity written down in the texts, our poets seem to have invented and conquered again a French language ten times more powerful that makes of the “Other one” the anglophone they fear, the dumbfounded accomplice of a poetical ritual of deconstruction and self-gestation
Planchard, de Cussac Etienne de. "L'Oeuvre romanesque de George Washington Cable (1844-1925) : essai d'interprétation et d'évaluation." Lyon 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LYO20034.
Full textLouisiana-born novelist George Washington Cable (1844-1925) is still listed today in literary histories as a local colorist who wrote about the creoles of Louisiana. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to demonstrate that the novelist, a southerner who adopted the democratic values of the union and thus became a heretic in his section, is essentially a political writer, and that the unity, strength and originality of his work derive from his political purpose. This interpretation leaves aside all the fiction he published John March, Southerner, which is his last foray against the south. Because Cable depended on writing to earn his living, his work was deeply influenced by the socio-economic conditions of his time, and especially by the demands of the national monthly reviews and their readers. He gained nation-wide fame through local color fiction, but was able to enlarge the narrow scope of that genre by combining it with the american romance and to infuse the picturesque creole life with the truth of the human heart to confer a universal import to his best novel, The Grandissimes. Then Cable abandoned the "romance" for realism which, to him, seemed a better approach to a picture of society intended to persuade the south to adopt a more democratic attitude. Indeed, by confronting that section with a true image of herself, he hoped to defeat her propensity for creating a mythical image of her experience all the more easily as this image usually went unchallenged by southern public opinion. John March, Southerner, is a good example of this strategy. Eventually Cable bowed to the hostility of his editors and the indifference of his readers, and abandoned his criticism of the south in favor of less scathing fiction. Thus, what he wrote after John March, Southerner, is of little interest. Yet, Cable blazed the trail for the 20th century southern novelists. His main qualities as a writer lie in his exceptional ability to unravel the skein of social intricacies and his unfailing command of the english language, but his work is often marred by sentimentality. Three of his books deserve to be remembered : Old creole days, The Grandissimes and John March, Southerner
Grenon, Carole. "L'économie du principe féminin dans l'oeuvre d'Ernest J. Gaines." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030009.
Full textThis thesis studies the principles of the feminine in Ernest J. Gaines’ six novels: Catherine Carmier, Of Love and Dust, A Gathering of Old Men, In My Father’s House, A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. It defines the feminine subject and identifies its moral principles. There is a gradual evolution of the feminine in the works of Ernest J. Gaines. From Catherine Carmier to The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the feminine strengthens itself. In the first novels, the feminine acts out of duty, advocates wisdom, which prevents it from creating things. The feminine gradually reaffirms itself through language and faces the masculine. This work explores the violence of the abnormal construction of the Black self and the strategies of deconstruction of the myth of white supremacy. The analysis of the reconstruction of the self shows a redefinition of genres. The feminine is virilized and feminizes the masculine. Finally, in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the feminine becomes militant and activist. The mother of the black community, identifying herself with the female Divine Law of the family, embodies female agency; she raises her sons and teaches them moral principles. The feminine and the masculine function as mirror images of each other; they work to get the recognition of the White man, and they seek to improve themselves. This study highlights the idea of dignity in death, of freedom which asserts itself in negativity
Saadani, Khalil. "Une Colonie dans l'impasse : la Louisiane française : 1731-1743." Paris, EHESS, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993EHES0091.
Full textIn the short history of french louisiana, which has lasted only six decades, the first half was more intensively studied by historians than the second one. The beginnings, thanks to the masterful work of marcel giraud, which has not its like for the period hefore 1731, are now well-known. By contrast the period which follows the retrocession has not been well researched. The works of villiers du terrage and guy fregault covered the years after 1743. So everything was to be done for the years 1731-1743, the chronological framework of my research. This period constitutes a whole. That's the reason why i have adopted a thematic approach to deal with it. Its unity resides in the last government of bienville. The original documentation is immense and based on the important resources of the archives of the colonies and of the marine. I have scrutinized the archives of the minister of foreign affairs and of the national library. Besides these manuscripts, i have used collections of printed documents, ships's logs, tracts. Finally i have consulted the atlas and maps deposited at the national library and the "bibliotheque du depot des cartes de la marine". Drawing the balance sheet of the sedentary colonization and analyzing its major trends is the central theme of my research. The emphasis bears on two approaches : socio-economic and geopolitical. In the first part (5 chapters), i deal with the retrocession of the colony and the administrative change with results from it. The second one (8 chapters) treats of the peopling and the exploitation of the west and the relations with the other colonial foreign powers and the native tribes
Langlois, Gilles-Antoine. "Urbanistique française aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique : L'organisation des "villes nouvelles" de la France au XVIIIe siècle dans l'espace louisianais." Paris 12, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA120083.
Full textGaona, Villasenor de Trinkl Maria. ""Los Isleños" : une minorité hispanique dans les marécages de l'ancien delta du Mississippi." Besançon, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BESA1018.
Full textOllier, Nicole. "Voix helléniques dans le monde anglo-saxon des États-Unis d'Amérique." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030097.
Full textGreeks in america and greek-americans produce a literature of their own, little explored so far. Written by contemporary writers of the first and second generations, met and interviewed, and forming two distinct "families", those writings ofter the interface of two clashing, or cross-breeding cultures and ideologies. Deeply anchored in history, the stratas of which are superimposed, regardless of chronology, they invite one to a journey from antiquity to "greektown, america", an odyssey of the greek-american ulysses, informed by a rich laography. Church and family are the two mainstays of ethnic cohesion, and sacred rites and pagan rituals support one another, "canonizing" death, perpetrating greek, often anachronistic values, and exacerbating the allegiance to tradition and the classical heritage, regional chauvinism or antagonisms such as that of phallocracy versus gynecocracy. The need for the immigrant to adapt however imposes the creation of a new ethos, and there emerges a third culture, born of metamorphoses, hybridations and syncretisms, resulting in a fruittul dialogism, while from one utopia to the next, from the american dream to the illusion of a nostos, the descendants of ulysses, or digenis, of double extraction, behind their masks, are in quest of their divided selves. Archetypal and symbolic nodes, an intertextuality largely drawing from mythology and the sacred texts are complemented by a complex variety of linguistic strategies, sometimes accommodating greek, "barbarian" fashion. Their analysis is accompanied by that of the greek lexicon, metaphor and provebs. English language and a greek voice prove quite compatible. Those polyphonic greek voices create a symphony in the cultural mainstream and side-streams of the united states
Toudji, Sonia. "Frontières Intimes : Indiens, Français, et Africains dans la Vallée du Mississippi." Phd thesis, Université du Maine, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675452.
Full textLe, Glaunec Jean-Pierre. "Lire et écrire la fuite d'esclaves dans le monde atlantique : essai d'interprétation comparée et "coopérante" à partir des annonces d'esclaves en fuite, Louisiane, Jamaïque et Caroline du sud (1801-1815) : une histoire culturelle et diplomatique." Paris 7, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA070087.
Full textMy dissertation is intended to serve as a biographical, social and cultural history of about 6,000 runaway slaves advertised in the newspapers 0f three slave societes 0f the early modern atlantic world : louisiana, south carolina, and jamaica. My central argument is to study runaway ads as texts and objects 0f history, and not simply as documents or pre-texts easily quantified and understood. I have attempted to consider the ads as a form 0f writing and reading, or to be more precise, as the major public form of reading and writing about fugitive slaves in the early modern atlantic world. Doing so means departing from the usual spatial and temporal boundaries of monographic history. The purpose is not study one particular region, for example louisiana, through the spectrum of jamaica and south carolina, but to leave the possibility open to be surprised by the confrontation of texts apparently identical or at least constructed along the same patterns. I here propose to place runaway ads at the centre of history and to read them for what they are : micro-narratives of micro-histories to be read and linked again and again
Cordié, Levy Marie-Hélène. "L' autoportrait dans la photographie américaine de 1839 à 1939." Paris 7, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA070023.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to show the evolution of self portraiture in photography in the United States during the first hundred years the medium was practised. A supple chronological approach was used following the direction identity formed itself. About fifty self portraits were selected out of a corpus of two hundred for their visual richness, their inner interest, and because they were done by professional photographers. In order to understand the signs inherent in each picture, a peculiar method called "tactile micro analysis" was used. Sometimes, anonymous self portraits were mentioned to show that some trends of thoughts were relevant to a collective dynamics. Moreover, as American novels came into existence at the same time as photography was born, correspondences were established with literature so as to give density to the signs present in the picture. Although this research is based on a formal taxinomy anchored in the western painting of portraits, what is mainly at stake here is to show the evolution in the way photographers looked at themselves first but also, at the world and their own practice. The subtle constant discrepancy between these approaches showing sometimes that photographers expressed their point of view in a most unexpected way was brought into light in this study
Lemoine, Xavier. "Naissance et développement du théâtre queer aux États-Unis." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100112.
Full textAlthough the notion of Queer Theater only began to develop in the early 1990s its stretch back to the beginning of the 20th century. Indeed, the portrayal of homosexuality on the stage has been shaped by moral and legal censorship revealing the tensions articulating theater as a whole. Queer theory, based on theoretical intertextuality, enables us to examine the way in which sex, gender, race and class are formed and how they are interrelated. Within this framework, queer criticism interrogates the politics of representation and attempts to grasp the forces that determine the boundaries separating the visible from the invisible. A general survey of drama reveals the variations that define both a history of Queer Theater and its construction as a category. "Homosexual theater," firstly characterized by the trope of the closet, was subsequently developed by a gay and lesbian theater informed by the trope of the coming out. Although this distinction is in itself an epistemological effect, it provides basic markers and explains the emergence of Queer Theater. Rejecting moot issues spawned by identity politics, Queer Theater sets out to utilize strategies against normative impulses perpetuated by a monolithic conception of the subject. Thus, Queer Theater offers a crosspollination that runs counter to the predominance of binary oppositions on stage. It then delves into the reception and production modes and attempts to open up the closure of interpretations and meanings of the text in order to go beyond heteronormativity. The AIDS crisis accelerated this process by questioning the status of the body furthered as well by the practice of camp, pornography and S/M. These aspects of queer performance, made more complex due to their performative effects, illustrate the queer momentum. Queer Theater therefore is a determining force on the stage, both pointing to its limitations and signaling new paths to keep it alive and on the cutting edge
Gorostieta, Monjaraz Patricia. "L'espace du roman frontalier en France, au Canada et aux États-Unis." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030045.
Full textThe topic of this dissertation is the study of space in the novel of the border and it is based upon three novels which belong to the literature of immigration of three countries : the beur literature in France, the literature of immigration of haitian origin in Canada and the chicana literature in the United States. We have studied Le Gone du Chaâba written by Azouz Begag, Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer by Dany Laferrière, and Peregrinos de Aztlán by Miguel Méndez. The topic of these novels is migration and the encounter between two cultures ; it is also about the difficult process of assimilation/integration of characters within the foreign space. First, we present the notion of the border and of the contact zones where the literature of the border springs out. Then the space under scrutiny is studied as the general space where foreigners arrive as much as the space of origin for them. It is within this space of arrival that the encounter between foreigners and nationals occurs, and is shown as collective representation. We analyse the organization of space in the novels, starting first from the notions of inner and outer space, then focusing on the window and the door as mediating elements between two spaces. From this first structure of space, we have found out three levels of space : the space of the private, the collective space and the public space. Other spaces open up : the oniric space, the illusory space and the one built by the characters' imagination through writing. Another space appears as the result of the collective imaginary world, this stereotypical space which is a distorted image of places that characters do not recognize. The relationships between two cultures in a space that becomes space of the border are called back at the end of my thesis and rely on the notion of border developed by Michel Butor which allows to gather all the elements pointed out in our research
Weber, Anne-Gaëlle. "Le roman de conquête scientifique au XIXe siècle en France, en Angleterre et aux États-Unis." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040094.
Full textThe " Novel of Scientific Conquest " is born, during the nineteenth century, from the encounter of the fiction of adventure with the discurse of natural history. Our claim is to measure the influence of the narrative of travel on the formal structure of the fiction of adventure. We first establish that an exemplary narrative can be found out of the extreme variety of " Travels " characteristic of the nineteenth century ; the scientific one, which rules have been defined by the naturalists of the Museum of Paris. Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad have all written "Travels", and transposed their forms to fiction. While calling their works" romance or novel of adventure ", they have suggested that this gender was not only composed of lineary texts with elementary plots but also by descriptive narratives
Diarra, Amara. "Le nationalisme noir aux etats-unis et l'image de l'afrique dans la litterature afro-americaine contemporaine." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030079.
Full textWe have been trying to show in this dissertation that africa has never ceased to have a major role to play in the history of blacks in the united states, as a cultural component which guarantees their specific identity in the first place, and in the second place, as a reference of nationality that they claim as openly as the refusal of their integration in the american mainstream is implacable. Their claim of membership of an african world has gone through the times, from the initial attempts to emigrate to africa to the recent and more realistic pan-africanist trend. But their endeavour to break away from the traditional integrationist feelings seems to have been painful and the identification with africa is often coupled with ambivalence as in the case of the novelists who very often remain dependant on the traditional euro-american cliches of the primitive african. This being one of the reasons why their image of africa seems less precise than the one presented in the poetry. Indeed, the black poets have developed a more coherent image of africa which evolves as follow: they have reasserted the value of the past of their african ancestors, glorified the beauty of blackness, before they can claim an african identity, as they feel and present the problems of nowadays africa as their own. This celebration of an african personality by the afro-american writers, though it may reveal some romanticism, cannot be disregarded as a temporary extravaganza, for its echo reaching as far as the african continent itself, has helped to re-establish the links of kinship which had been broken for a long time, leading the afro-americans through a major turning point in their long and painful search of an identity
Tazartez, Chloé. "Après l’attentat : fictions de l’événement terroriste dans les littératures arabe et états-unienne contemporaines." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REN20040/document.
Full textThe importance and the huge impact of the 9/11 attacks transformed them into the symbol of the entry of the world into the 21st century. If this status is questionable, the importance of terrorism in our contemporary society is not. This work focuses on the analysis of the fictionalisation of these events and on their comparison to fictions related to other attacks. This leads to the conclusion that the exceptionality of 9/11 is mainly due to its media coverage. This study is organized in three parts. In the first one, we question the impact of such events on society and the issues of their fictional representation. The focus is on the event in itself, on its traumatic and historical dimensions and also on the fictional part it plays in the novels of the corpus. In the second part, we go more and more into the details of the works and we observe the link between language, speeches and the traumatic event, and the necessity to use intertextual relations in order to deal with the present trauma. Then, the process carried out in the first two parts ends to the statement that the event is not represented in its details and is rarely the central point of the works. Thus, the focus slips from the event to those who suffer from it: the characters. The absence of precise temporal anchoring allows us to enlarge our reflection. The study of the narrative structure in a triple plan and the analysis of the construction of the characters lead our interpretation of fictions of the terrorist event as an invitation to rethink the mankind and the society they build
Dragon, Geneviève. "La masure et le mausolée : le roman de la frontière entre Mexique et États-Unis." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20015/document.
Full textThis work focuses on the mythical territory of the border between Mexico and the United States, in terms of novelistic literature. As the product of a conflict history, the border area is at the heart of an actuality terrible and spectacular. The violence of the narcos, the thousands of migrants risking their lives through the desert, the innumerable and unpunished feminicides: every fact expresses violence and excess. Taking as a point of departure this observation of an extreme and spectacular reality, this study shows the complexity of a place mixing different representations. This phenomenon is called hypertopia. The fictional corpus composed of American writers (James Carlos Blake, Cormac McCarthy), Mexicans (Yuri Herrera, Eduardo Antonio Parra) and more broadly Latin American (Roberto Bolaño) serves as a critical counterpoint to this hypertopia, conceived as a romantic overflow of fiction on the real. The study of these novels reveals a paradoxical representation of a mobile border, which disappears and vanishes. The work defines the "total novel" or novel of porosity, able to contain a worried questioning about the chaos of the world, against which literature tries to confront. To approach such a place, the study proposes a method, not only comparatist (by borrowing geocritics and references to the imagology) but more broadly interdisciplinary, crossing geography, history, anthropology and plastic arts
Diouf, Abdourahmane. "Esthétique, politique et éthique : la création littéraire dans l’œuvre romanesque de John Steinbeck." Thesis, Le Mans, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LEMA3008.
Full textJohn Steinbeck’s works cannot be reduced to a strict aesthetic or ideological categorization. They are often studied at the crossroads of colourful styles that intermingle and clash, in order to grasp the substratum of the work behind its varieties. The challenge of this thesis is to study the link between aesthetics, politics and ethics, starting not from the writer's political positions but from the works themselves, in order to analyze the ways in which these notions can be dynamically and progressively highlighted as the work unfolds over four decades. Moving from the lyrical and picaresque novel to the social novel (particularly Tortilla Flat and the Dust Bowl Novels trilogy: In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath), John Steinbeck makes it possible for a political critique to be constructed in his work based on a questioning of the linearity of narrative discourse. Like the form of the discourse, the narrative “content” conveys and develops a political vision that substitutes for the American Dream and its utopian “Melting Pot” a more realistic sociopolitical structure in which one perceives “two opposing classes”, by virtue of the system of capitalist domination. Steinbeck reworked the novel genre to develop a providential, humanist and anti-capitalist vision. By testing the notions of plot, protagonist (or “hero”) and temporality, he placed this political critique at the very heart of the writing process, inviting readers to take a fresh look at his more “political” works of the 1930s and 1950s, and at the links between modernism, political engagement and ecology. Although some of his works are radically contested, he has made constant use of the myth of origins. This recourse to the mythical thoughts of the founding American texts acts as a hyphen allowing him to deconstruct literarily the dominant political discourses of his society
Chauvet, Émeline. "Littérature, photographie et pornographie : Questions de temporalités." Thesis, Limoges, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIMO0060.
Full textThrough the aesthetic similarities between French and American literature and photography, this research work intends to analyse the discourse on pornography (which we will call "metapornography") staged by postmodern art and its repercussions on the pornographic body. This work is based on three photographic series, A History of Sex by Andrés Serrano (1995), Sex Pictures by Cindy Sherman (1992) and Pornography by Édouard Levé (2002), as well as three novels, Souvenirs du triangle d'or by Alain Robbe-Grillet (1978), Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker (1978) and Les particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq (1998). A secondary corpus borrowed from literature and photography as well as from films or performance will also support the analysis. The heterogeneity of the corpus of study allowed the search for homogenizing criteria that could guide the whole analysis, namely: the crisis of the subject, the de-hierarchization, the importance of metatextuality with the rejection of the cult of the unique and the permanence of discourses on the end. The demonstration therefore takes these invariants into account by systematically linking them to the expression of a particular temporality and its effects on the pornographic body: we are witnessing a successive deformation of the pornographic body which, by way of hybridity, crossing boundaries and fragmentation, has only one solution left: to rebuild itself. But this reconstruction, intimately linked to a process of diversion, is marked by an aesthetic of the too much and the kitsch. All that remains is a cold, worn-out body, on the edge of death, calling for its own outcome
Pion, Bleuette. "Régionalisme et cultures autochtones : le sud des Etats-Unis dans la nouvelle et le roman américains entre 1910 et 1950." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040305.
Full textDuring the first decades of the twentieth century, a few american writers launched a regionalist movement in the southwest of the united states. Aware of the fact that peoples with cultures different from their own already lived there before american sovereignty was established over their territory, they considered that the indigenous cultures gave the southwest its originality as a region. A comparative study of a representative selection of novels published during that period or immediately after shows evidence of their influence. The aim of the novel of the southwest is didactic ; the narratives draw heavily on history and the reality of everyday life carefully avoiding distorsions while the plots evolve from situations obviously chosen for their illustrative value. The image of the unaccountably hostile or ludicrously picturesque native, whether indian or mexican, is still present but no longer prevails. A number of novels focussing on native characters and their environment represent a society and the various aspects of its culture with a view to making the reader realize the vicissitudes of the native now a stranger in his own land. The novel both informs the reader and undertakes to rehabilitate the native and this entails a reassessment of american values. Though it does not deny the fact that the native cultures are doomed to extinction, the novel of the southwest claims that they may influence the american in his attitudes and a majority of novelists visualize the southwest as an ideal region-to-be where the american is represented as a newcomer who may take root if he accepts the native
Kekeh-Dika, Andrée-Anne. "Lieux et stratégies de résistance dans les discours romanesques de Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker et Sherley Anne Williams." Paris 7, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA070067.
Full textBuffet, Alexis. "Les écrivains français et les États-Unis dans l’entre-deux-guerres (représentations, imaginaires, fantasmes)." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20093.
Full textWhen they entered World War I in 1917, the USA rapidly established themselves as the main economic, industrial and military power in the world. Alongside the soldiers, it was also about American music (rag-time and jazz), cinema (the Tramp to begin with and very soon the film noir), legends and their own myths. While France was undergoing a civilisation crisis, talking about the USA could not be insignificant. Talks about the USA became then full of existential, ideological, but also aesthetic stakes. On the top of the worries of the time going through the abundant literary production about America, came the personal feelings of the authors.The many voices and points of view that could be heard seriously undermined the common idea of France being completely anti-American. The authors not talking at some point or another about the USA were very rare, whether they saw in it the foresight of a future life, the avant-garde of decadence, a landmark of modernity or the opportunity for Franco-American friendship, a countermodel in politics or the occasion to see in it a democratic utopia... It was hence the coming of age of a proliferating French imaginary about the USA, quite far from a monological speech which consisted in an amazing broadening of the writer's horizon, or, on the contrary, in a European withdrawal, sometimes even nationalist. Our thesis offers then to account for the central position of the USA in the being and reflection of French writers of the interwar period through the multiple shapes of resonance and deflagration of the word and the thing « America » in their imaginary life.We have understood by now that it is not necessary, in order to talk about America, to have actually crossed the atlantic. The USA appear as a favorable place to foster fiction-in its broad meaning encompassing mythology, fantasy, clichés, symbolic representations… Our job will be then to hunt down the stereotypes, clichés, the personal projection of the imagination in the works without underestimating its relevance. Since the literary texts evolve with an amibiguous relationship with reality, it is possible that the traditional division between true and false may not be adequate. It is true indeed that the « America » in the texts seems quite often to be the product of fantasies (personal or collective), it does not however exclude, sometimes, the feeling of a truth or understanding. The post 9/11 crisis is the right time to re-establish, within its full complexity, the plural history of a look on the other, beyond the avertion or fascination so often introduced as the only two paths taken by the French writers
Béja, Alice. "Une écriture de combat : Fiction et politique dans l'entre-deux-guerres aux États-Unis : John Dos Passos (1920-1938)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00749963.
Full textLoucif, Sabine. "Sociologie de la réception et analyse du rôle de l'institution littéraire : étude contrastive de l'usage des "classiques" de la littérature française dans les universités américaines." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030056.
Full textThis dissertation analyses the reception of French literature in American universities from the undergraduate level to the PhD. The first part of this work deals with the battle of the books that took place in the mid-eighties about the contents of western civilization courses at the bachelor level. In those courses, where French literature is taught in American translation, one can identify two conflicting versions of the canon: a liberal canon influenced by Lincoln’s conception of the American dream, and a radical canon based on the ideology of the sixties and seventies. The second part of the dissertation focuses on teaching practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels and the third part on research projects conducted by American academics. The results of my inquiries show that the canon of teaching is traditional whereas the canon of research includes women and francophone writers in addition to the "classics". The approach adopted is both sociological and cross-cultural: sociological because literature is considered a social practice, and cross-cultural because American practices of French literature are compared to their French counterparts in order to identify the differences between the two cultures. Characteristics of the works labelled as canonical are considered as well as the history of the French literary field and the structure of the American academic world
Dumitrescu, Porumb Georgeta. "La société américaine dans la Tétralogie de John Updike." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040149.
Full textCompaoré, Mathieu. "L'afro-américanisme de William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, : ou la quête du pluralisme culturel aux Etats-Unis." Montpellier 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990MON30040.
Full textDu bois is undoubtedly the poineer in the struggle for afroamerican liberation. He has positively outlined the essence of the inherent duality in the black american. Since the african origin of the black man was dishonestly used as an excuse to assign him a second class citizenship, dubois concluded that to liberate the black diaspora went beforehand through the rehabilitation of africa, thyis dark continent, without culture or history. He started to proclaim his negritude while singing his americanity. This way, his kinsmen would no longer be ashamed of their ancestral link with africa, and most of all, they would fight for their share of the national cake : the right to fully participate in the political, economic, social and spiritual life of the nation. In short, du bois'afro-americanism is the expression of a black culture in an american personality. Therefore, the afroamerican should not whiten his soul (deny his black culture); he must strive to complete the white culture in the interest of america. But, to cultural pluralism the wasp favoured another theory : segregation. He viewed cohabitation on the sole basis of domination and submission. Against this injustice, du bois turned into a fierce defender of the material and moral rights of the afro-americans, and into a eulogist of africa. Shouldering his duality, he exiled himself on the african
Barei, Tahereh. "Evolution du sujet féminin dans les oeuvres de Erica Jong (à travers Fear of flying, Fanny, Parachute and kisses et Serenissima)." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081633.
Full textDesjardins, Carl. "Une étude sociologique de la littérature : Charles Bukowski et les contestataires américains, 1955-1974." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28223/28223.pdf.
Full textPetitjean, Anne-Marie. "La littérature sur le métier : Étude comparée des pratiques créatives d’écriture littéraire dans les universités, en France, aux États-Unis et au Québec." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CERG0674.
Full textThe university grounding of the tradition of writing workshops is often ignored in France while it is clearly established in the United States. The stories of the creative practices of literary writing are thus handled differently and bring into play different views of literature which this study seeks to compare. The issue of the linguistic areas and the question of the process of the international extension of those practices particularly require to consider the Quebec courses. How can these different training courses be characterized? Which representations of the author, of the writing process, of creativity or of the work do they convey? Which tension and change currents emerge? On the diachronic and synchronic levels and by backing up the bibliographical survey with systematic questionnaires and collections of in-the-field data, the comparison will contemplate its own epistemological landmarks and the current state of resources which the translations intend to make accessible to French speakers
Constantinesco, Thomas. "Ralph Waldo Emerson : l'Amérique à l'essai - lectures de l'oeuvre en prose." Paris 7, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA070049.
Full textUpon his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson had already become a literary monument and was recognized as a founding figure of American culture. Published in 1837, "The American Scholar" is indeed hailed by many to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence. " However, if the "Belles Lettres" did contribute to creating the representation of a common imaginary whereby the American nation could invent itself and if, in the course of the nineteenth century, America wrote itself into existence, such an enterprise remained largely the province of fiction. Yet Emerson was always suspicious of fiction, which for him rhymed with illusion, choosing instead to write non-fictional prose, and more particularly essays. Contrary to some of his contemporaries who turned tales, romances, and novels into indigenous genres, free at last from the shackles of European Letters, Emerson turned towards the genre of the essay and made it one of America's privileged forms of literary expression. This thesis thus offers to read Emerson's essays as so many ways of approaching what "Experience" describes as "this new yet unapproachable America," considering them as the locus where the American democracy repeatedly writes and rewrites its social compact and continuously reinvents itself. By the same token however, and despite Emerson's aversion for fictional forms, the essays yield to the desire for fiction that haunts them in secret and become what he called "romances of character," fashioning the character of America's representative men even as the letters, the characters, take shape on the page
Miramon, Denyse. "Les auteurs français du XXe siècle devant la grande ville américaine." Bordeaux 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990BOR30024.
Full textThis dissertation studies the various perception and analytical modes of the larger cities in the writings of twentieth secular century french writers. Part. One : looks at the forms of discourse that bring out the various writers'attitudes towards their discovery of the city. . The character of their vision is then studied in its manifest aspect for cach of them. Finally the elaboration of the writing from the moment of discovery is discussed, which bring us to differentiali between various periods from 1900 to 1945 writers are clearly admirative ; from 1945 to 1960, poetry and lyricism are the dominant modes. Over the last twenty years, fiction seems to become the essential approach to travel literature, leaving room for a thoroughly new approach to the larger american city, linked to the developments of contemporary thought
Boissier, Laurence. "Le roman policier juridique dans l'Amérique contemporaine." Montpellier 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MON30010.
Full textPuel, Blandine. "Le moment adolescent : la fiction narrative à l'épreuve d'un morceau de temps : espace transatlantique (France-Italie-États-Unis), 1923-1994." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Bordeaux 3, 2020. https://scd.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/these/acces_reserve.php.
Full textThis work will explore, through the XXth century, a corpus of several novels proposing an innovative way of telling adolescence as a fullsome and undivided period of life, not defined in relation with childhood or adulthood but in itself, narrated from the present moment or from a very restrictive retrospection. Short forms are the most frequent forms for this new kind of fiction, also represented by many debut novels. Our corpus narrates adolescence as a moment, and not a life trajectory, thus inviting to consider new poetics of this age : temporality effects (the account of instants is prefered to the narration of a long and continuous span of time), spaces are remodelled, the adolescent himself is entrusted with the telling of his story, the narration is inward. We will also consider how this new poetic of adolescence allows a disruption from traditional literary models such as Bildungsroman or « coming-of-age novel », enduring models which have highly conditioned the narration of adolescence during the XIXth and early XXth century. Our study begins in 1923, year of publication of two short novels of adolescence [Le Blé en herbe and Le Diable au corps]. Radiguet’s novel, which made a lot of noise and caused scandal at this time, broke open the 1920’s (time of major changes in literary fiction) with verve. By many aspects, the first novel of Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero, published in 1985 at the other end of the century, echoes Radiguet’s first novel : same provocation, although staid and decadent rather than vigorous. This echo is only one of many we can draw between the different texts of the corpus : thus, in 1994, Enrico Brizzi’s « romanzo di esordio » (debut novel) rewrites many aspects of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye published in 1951. In the 1940-1950’s an italian and an american writer (Alberto Moravia and Carson McCullers), who have met each other, both dedicate two of their major novels to the telling of an adolescent moment. By extending our study up to the near end of the century, until a generational turn — young writers replace post-war writers — we will also have a chance to consider how writing adolescence is conditionned to the advent of a specific readership : adolescents themselves
André-Metrie, Françoise. "Paul Monette (1945-1995), écrivain américain, et les représentations du sida : itinéraire individuel et lutte communautaire aux Etats-Unis (1980-1995)." Paris 7, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA070046.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation is to underscore the uniqueness of the writings and life of the American writer, Paul Monette, placing him in the context of Aids representations. It focuses on the period between 1985 and 1995, when devastation of AIDS in the gay community was at its peak. Paul Monette himself died of AIDS in 1995 at the age of 49. The first part gives a detailed account of the evolution of the gay movement, which Monette was part of, both as a militant and a writer. An analysis of the emergence of an openly gay literary movement establishes the link with the movement generated by the AIDS crisis. The first part also investigates the wide range of representations of AIDS, in the fields of the media, militancy, art and literature. The following part concentrates on the multi-faceted writings of Monette, highlighting the articulation between the individual and the collective. Analysing the autobiographical aspect of his work contributes to an understanding of how a tortured and closeted young poet became through the years the role model for gays and Lesbians, as well as for ail people with AIDS. It also shows the part played by autobiography in the confrontation with AIDS, which brought about a renewal of this literary genre. The last part deals with the militant representations of AIDS. Images of the plague, of genocide and of the holocaust are integral part of this discourse and stand as the collective conceptualisations of an epidemic that devastated a community in the definite social and political context of the eighties. The third part of the thesis also stresses an atypical aspect of Monette who appears as a romantic writer taking up the classic theme of love-stronger-than-death and the elegiac evocation a Paradise Lost, the time before AIDS
Mokhtari, Farida. "Les femmes et la problématique du genre dans la fiction de Tennessee Williams." Paris 8, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA081826.
Full textPlatini, Vincent. "Démons du crime : les pouvoirs du truand et son instrumentalisation idéologique dans la littérature et le cinéma de l’entre-deux-guerres (Allemagne, États-Unis, France)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040067.
Full textThe cultural productions of the interwar years were marked by the proliferation of representations of the mobster figure. Historically, the socio-economic context facilitated the emergence of a certain criminality which started being widely depicted in mass culture including films, crimen ovels and drama. The mobster figure depicted in these productions turns out to be all the more versatile since power relations were going through profound changes at that time : the official authorities were being contested, the limits of legality were redefined and with the advent of the Third Reich, those who had once challenged power eventually acceded to it. The representations of mobsters therefore acquired ambiguous meanings. These characters could very well support social control by imposing norms and justifying measures of surveillance orembody resistance against the establishment, pointing out loopholes in control systems and promoting new life styles. Based on Michel Foucault’s works, this dissertation examines the social, scientific and political discourses featured in the cultural productions of that periodas well as the ideological, esthetical and practical instrumentalisation of these characters. This dissertation argues that mobsters may appear as participants of punitive and disciplinary systems which subdue the people, but may also be questioning the powers and discourses that shape their representations. This work further demonstrates that, because mass culture usually adapts itself to its consumers, the mobsters may also be taken on by the audience, being the promoters of new cultural practices and new social bonds
Ferguson, Benjamin. "Rethinking the Last Frontier : Anglophone travel literature about Alaska in the 20th and 21st centuries – writing, ethics and environmental responsibility." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASK002.
Full textThis thesis is centered around three primary literary focuses: environmental studies, Arctic studies, and travel writing. Essentially, the subject to be treated is the ethical responsibilities of an outsider when entering into an isolated region such as Alaska, with its extraordinary demographic diversity and unique biomes, particularly when discussing environmental issues, which are very often at the forefront of conversation in “modern” travel writing.As for parameters, “modern” is in quotations as the term is inherently subjective. The modern Alaska timeframe could be set up in numerous ways, including this millennium, with its shift into climate change and animal rights discussions, but two other dates are more trenchant: 1977 when the first oil flowed from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Coast latitudinally southward to Valdez on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, and 1959 when Alaska officially became the 49th US state. The latter date was chosen, as the former was merely the culmination of a long process that had already upended the state’s identity of itself, including the arrival of ostensibly endless flows of money into government coffers.Furthermore, six primary works were chosen, from 1959 to the present moment, with an eye toward diversity: of interests, of demographics, of chronology, of geography, and of style. The works are Peter Matthiessen’s Oomingmak: The Expedition to Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea (1967); John McPhee’s Coming into the Country: Travels in Alaska (1977); Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986); Tom Lowenstein’s Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals (1993); Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau: A Sea and its Meanings (1999); and Nancy Lord’s Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale’s Truths (2003). These six works explore geographic and demographic ranges from the Northwest Arctic coast of Iñupiat culture, Southwest Alaska of the Yup’ik, Cook Inlet and Anchorage Bowl Urban Native and Dena’ina culture, Interior Alaska Athabaskan culture, and Southeast Alaska Tlingit and Haida culture.The thesis is ordered into three parts: a historiography framing the current political and cultural moment in the state; a direct literary analysis of the primary works, broken up into themes discussed therein; and a prescriptive application informed by the current meta-discussion taking place in environmental studies
Gillespie, Margaret. "Pour une poétique de l'altérité : l'oeuvre de Djuna Barnes, sur les marges du "modernism"." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070073.
Full textThis thesis problematizes of the concept of alterity, here defined as the cultural construction of difference, and studies the aesthetic and generic expression of alterity in the works of the American writer Djuna Barnes. Barnes's highly ambiguous "oeuvre" defies clear-cut categorisation, a fact compounded by the unconventional nature of her subject matter and the innovatory discursive strategies employed throughout the texts. Barnes's writing tends towards the subversion of both cultural codes and sexual paradigms, and underlines the divisions at the heart of all inscriptions of identity. Above all, underlying the questions posed in the course of Barnes's narratives, questions pertaining to the identity, and more specifically the gender identity of the subject, is a highly unique yet pertinent expression of the crisis of modernity. The internal contradictions of modernism, especially those relative to the status of male artist, often obscured in traditional readings of this current, reveal themselves with unusual clarity in Barnes's "late modernist" works
Magnin, Caroline. "Fragmentation, disruption, contournement : écrire le trauma du 11-Septembre dans le roman américain contemporain." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL058.pdf.
Full textThis dissertation aims to study four novels from what is commonly referred to as “9/11 fiction” – that is, the works of fiction devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The argument gradually characterizes their aesthetics and questions the notion of inscription, the ways in which trauma seeps into the literary text. This inscription is, first, strictly textual, and reminiscent of traumatic writings in general; the writing is informed by the clinical symptoms of trauma though its three main manifestations: absence and erasure, excess and overflow, fragmentation and splitting. The metaphor of trauma plays the role of a literary thinking path: as an object, trauma signifies the failure of language, and the text therefore becomes a reflection on the difficulty to represent, a symbol of the tension between urgency and impossibility to express oneself. A second part explores the physical scar and involves the sensible. Trauma reveals itself in the visual dimension of the writing – especially through the particular impact that images have on the literary text – as well as in its sonic aspect: the deafening sound of the catastrophe becomes a figure of traumatic effraction. The whole body, as a much too delicate carnal envelope that cannot resist foreign attacks, bears the marks of trauma, thereby turning into a monument to the event. A third part finally focuses on the spatial inscription of trauma in the four novels, which collectively celebrate New York City. The cityscape becomes the locus where what resists its registration into the psyche symbolically finds an alternate mode of inscription
Destoppeleire, Sandra. "Représentations de la judéité dans l'oeuvre romanesque et picturale de Chaim Potok." Paris 7, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA070046.
Full textJudaism is the essence of Chaim Potok's work. Potokian fiction, a profound immersion in the world of orthodox American Jewry, claims to mirror this reality. Potok's realistic perspective, aided by his descriptive technique, provides an accurate testimony of this world. The first part of this thesis concentrates on the geographical and sociological contexts of the wolrd depicted by Potok, while the second part focuses on a portayal of the Jewish-American community as it grapples with History. Potokian fiction cannot be understood as merely a portrait of reality, its didactic and ideological functions prevent such simplification. Indeed, the content of Potok's writing reveals the author's Hebraic ethical heritage : thus, this third part of this study focuses on the ethical and mystical aspects of his fiction. The problem of evil is woven into all of Potok's work, with Cabbalistic thought a particularly pregnant influence in this respect. As the Shoah is at the heart of his reflection on the notion of evil, Potok offers a true philosophical examination of the inexpressible
Rezbanyay, Élisabeth. "Les modèles féminins dans les romans pour filles de l'Amérique victorienne." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30058.
Full textSo as to appreciate the degree of realism of the characters, the study of the novels comes within the scope of a social and cultural context, presented in a first part highlighting the condition of life and the specific environment in which women and children were confined (home), as well as the educational theories of the time, and the place granted to children's literature in victorian american families. The analysis of the novels tries then to bring out the representations of the feminine "nature" and roles ; it first studies characterization, that of the heroines, who serve as models to the girl readers, but also that of the other feminine characters, who are models for the heroines ; then, the situation of these feminine characters, the roles assigned to the heroines, are examined, as they reveal what place women wished, in real life, to occupy. These novels written by women for future women inform us about women's conception of their own "nature", and show us to what extent they accepted to spread the theories defined by their society. As cultural documents, these novels are evidence of the changes in mentalities between 1850 and 1900, which gave women and children more self-assurance and freedom of action. But considering these texts only as reflections of their time would limit their significance, as they also have a didactic function. The blending of realism and idealism found in the feminine models proposed as examples to the girl readers echoes the double function of these novels, both descriptive and propagating a "feminine", but not "feminist", ideology, which remains victorian in its attachment to traditional values, and in its trust in woman's moral superiority
Tabet, Guillaume. "De Marie-Antoinette aux Merry Antoinettes, le détournement contemporain d'une figure historique aux États-Unis." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMR069.
Full textToday Marie-Antoinette appears in the USA as a dazzling character. Propaganda from the French revolution compared her to the Chimera, and she indeed shares some traits with this mythological monster. Heterogeneous and composite, she is a wicked queen and a tragic heroin. Media outlets invoke the queen`s name to accuse politicians and celebrities, while also painting her as a compassionate figure and portrait of feminism. Symbol of French luxury, Marie-Antoinette would be a queen of fashion and a comparative tool for gauging contempt of the wealthiest. The historian, the journalist or the economist can each seize one facet of the queen’s images to offer a critical or benevolent personal view of the queen. Thus, creating a confused, contradictory, and sublimed picture of the character. Stating that her use distorts history, we will study the queen’s occurrence in modern USA in popular culture and scholarly works. A symbol of economic success, she provides opposing guidelines for definitions of success. We will show that these factors come from a fictive figure, a Chimera in its definition of an unreal monster. We will then explore the different images of the queen to understand where they originated, spotlighting New Orleans, where her image is particularly influential
Bédard-Fiset, Alexis, and Alexis Bédard-Fiset. "Poétique de la correspondance dans le Courrier des États-Unis de New York entre 1840 et 1850 : le cas du Canadien français Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37455.
Full textNous avons analysé les articles de Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau publiés dans le Courrier des États-Unis de New York (1828-1938) pendant la décennie 1840. Le journal rejoignait de nombreuses communautés francophones dispersées dans les Amériques. Chauveau est le seul Canadien français à y collaborer au milieu du XIXe siècle et se révèle un correspondant étranger particulièrement prolifique. Afin de comprendre les poétiques d’écriture du correspondant canadien, nous avons comparé ses articles avec ceux des autres correspondants, principalement parisiens. Nous avons observé que les correspondances, autant celles de Chauveau que celles de ses collègues d’outre-mer, répondent aux mêmes logiques d’écriture que les autres genres journalistiques de l’époque, en particulier la chronique; aussi conservent-elles des traces d’un fort héritage épistolaire. De surcroît, pour pallier le manque de balises dans la manière d’écrire le journal, les correspondants convoquent des formes « canoniques et livresques » : l’influence de la matrice littéraire est tangible. L’étude du contenu des correspondances de Chauveau révèle qu’il utilise sa tribune dans l’espoir de désenclaver sa nation afin de l’arrimer au reste des Français d’Amérique. Pour y parvenir, il exalte la nostalgie pour la Nouvelle-France en misant sur l’identité de « Français d’autrefois » du Canadien, critique de manière récurrente l’opposant commun, l’Angleterre, et fait ressortir les multiples impacts du pouvoir de la religion catholique, rappelant ainsi la France prérévolutionnaire.
We analyzed Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau’s foreign correspondences published in the Courrier des États- Unis (1828-1938) between 1840 and 1850. The newspaper was produced in New York and reached many French-speaking communities scattered throughout the Americas. Chauveau was the Courrier’s only French- Canadian correspondent and one of the most prolific among his colleagues. In order to unveil the various influences associated to his writing, we compared his articles with the ones that his Parisian colleagues produced. We observed that more important journalistic genres of the era such as the editorial had a significant impact on their writing. Their articles also contain strong literary and epistolary influences. We dedicated the most crucial part of our study to the analysis of Chauveau’s articles. We discovered that his articles are a means to convince his readers that French Canadians should be perceived as a legitimate part of French America. In order to do so, Chauveau exacerbated the nostalgy for New France. He also tried to prove that French Canadians are actually pre-revolutionary French citizens, namely by highlighting the extent of the Catholic Church’s powers. Moreover, by constantly criticizing a common opponent, England, Chauveau aspired to strengthen his readers’ sympathy for his nation
We analyzed Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau’s foreign correspondences published in the Courrier des États- Unis (1828-1938) between 1840 and 1850. The newspaper was produced in New York and reached many French-speaking communities scattered throughout the Americas. Chauveau was the Courrier’s only French- Canadian correspondent and one of the most prolific among his colleagues. In order to unveil the various influences associated to his writing, we compared his articles with the ones that his Parisian colleagues produced. We observed that more important journalistic genres of the era such as the editorial had a significant impact on their writing. Their articles also contain strong literary and epistolary influences. We dedicated the most crucial part of our study to the analysis of Chauveau’s articles. We discovered that his articles are a means to convince his readers that French Canadians should be perceived as a legitimate part of French America. In order to do so, Chauveau exacerbated the nostalgy for New France. He also tried to prove that French Canadians are actually pre-revolutionary French citizens, namely by highlighting the extent of the Catholic Church’s powers. Moreover, by constantly criticizing a common opponent, England, Chauveau aspired to strengthen his readers’ sympathy for his nation
Trombley, James. ""Creating a society to match its scenery" : le projet littéraire de Wallace Stegner ou la réécriture de l'Ouest américain." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040240.
Full textWallace Stegner (1909-1993), a major figure in contemporary literature of the American west, approaches the history, the myths and the environment of his native region by combining autobiography, fiction and essay in an attempt to promote intellectual culture in a region noted for its naive optimism, yet sensitive to the fragility of its spectacular scenery. This thesis questions the foundations of Stegner's "unavowed" project and the manner in which the author conjugates the quest for personal identity with civic didacticism. By isolating four major complementary aspects of the author's work, we attempt to expose the networks of meaning that enable the author to formulate a corrected vision of the west, where the civilizing role of the university as institution, nourished by a collective conscience, exercises a stabilizing function in the larger community
Jourdan, Robert. "Culture biblique, mathesis et structures de la communication dans "The crying of Lot 49" de Thomas Pynchon." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081293.
Full textThis dissertation takes the double shape of, firstly, an interrogation over language ideology and its relation to the graeco-roman and judaeo-christian worlds in thomas pynchon's novelette the crying of lot 49 and secondly of a renewed look at the diegesis thereof in the larger frame of typical + sub-plots ; in north-american literature. Thomas pynchon's frequent reference to + paranoia ; and his use of recurring schemes in european history may indicate, at least for the author of this study, a certain link to india in what is called the + indo-european ; part of english linguistics and this, in turn, is not the attitude of the novelists who predated the post- modernist american literature anymore. California in this book is + kali ;-fornia like it was in richard farina's been down so long it looks like up to me, for instance, and the more or less occult significations which are quite commonplace in that type of literature take here a new aspect : they become logical, even mathematical and very precisely so. At the end of this analysis, we can understand that these + games ; able to manipulate conciousnesses were freshly tested when giordano bruno's + mathesis ; or magical power of the higher mathematics was used during the jacobean era but have now reached their maturity. Post-modern literature is a powerful antidote, though, at least as long as it can get published
Galli, Marika. "La réception des produits alimentaires du Nouveau Monde dans les écrits italiens et français du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle : pratiques et représentations." Besançon, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BESA1017.
Full textIn view of its broad implications and the major changes it generated, in the long term the discovery of America involved a revolution in food consumption habits which deeply reshaped European cooking practices. The present dissertation is a study of the integration process of some of the plants originating from the New World which had a significant impact on European eating habits and more specifically on the Italian and French ones. The geographic setting and framework of our research project embraces Italy and France. Our analysis covers the early modern age, albeit within a very flexible chronological framework. The adoption of a foreign product is always going to be affected by several interwoven, overlapping and mutually confusing environmental, symbolic and psychological factors. The corpus of our sources consists of three large general categories – travel literature, scientific literature and cookery literature – in addition to other writings with a more literary inspiration. We study the history of e selected range of vegetable products standing out for their particularly significant integration process : we focus on pepper and chocolate. Then, we consider the case of maize, potato, tomato and pineapple, in order to identify the general trends of theirs integration process
Bas, Pierre. "Les interrelations entre le monde réel et le monde du fantasme dans le classicisme hollywoodien." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA088.
Full textThrough classical Hollywood cinema, one can explore the broad variety of meanings that the concept of reality has in cinema: fragments of recorded reality material, the ontological realism that is attached to it, the narrative reality that constitutes the universe of films, and the philosophical reality that transports the viewer back to his own self by sharing the experience of characters with whom he identifies. Through the instrumentalisation of these relative realities, Hollywood creates a new form of narrative that nourishes literature, myths and psychoanalysis, and help spread a common cultural background to all Americans. Because cinematographic reality is not what the audience believes it is, it is naturally linked with dream and fantasy, justifying thoughts on their inter-relationships and on the dynamics of the transformation of cinematographic art that is played out in these inter-relationships.Subjects of the imagination and desire of filmmakers, the worlds created by Hollywood merely have the appearance of our world. This even encompasses inner worlds, whose doors will be opened to us through the representation of dreams, creating a hybridity between reality, dream and fantasy. But a doubt will be created in the spectator, who has been made to believe equally in dreams, fantasy and reality, and this doubt will jeopardize the "suspension of disbelief" that has made Hollywood successful, ultimately contributing to the end of classicism; the dream having contaminated fiction
Amoretti, Julien. "Le souffle et la glaise : logique de l'image dans l'oeuvre de William Faulkner (1919-1942)." Paris 7, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA070040.
Full textThe topic of this study is Faulkner's imagery, considered as a specific language. Using concepts derived from structuralist and formalist criticism, this essay attempts to describe the vocabulary and syntax that characterize Faulkner's imagery, in order to determine the rules that explain the co-presence of some of these images within a specific textual unit and how they evolve as the narrative develops. The analysis focuses on defining a seminal signifying unit, both descriptive and narrative, out of which Faulkner's imagery unfolds through a complex network of reformulations and variations. Systematic textual study allows us to explore the various images that recur in Faulkner's poetry and fiction from 1919 to 1942: characters (mother and father images, lovers, doubling figures), settings (pastoral landscapes, ruins, rivers, the wilderness, etc. ) but also types of narratives (love quests, flight situations, confrontations, monument building, etc. ). The purpose of this analysis is to shed light on the relations that connect Faulkner's images and how these help create meaning in the text